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South African Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica has announced the formation of a new special investigations team dedicated to the eradication of rhino poaching.

Poaching rhinos for their valuable horns is reaching alarming proportions in South Africa.

When a 21-year-old Sumatran rhinoceros named Emi died last month at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, the world lost its only such animal that has given birth successfully in captivity.

Officials at the Baton Rouge Zoo gave a sneak peak of its newly-arrived star Thursday morning.

Zookeepers knew something spectacular was occurring late Sunday night.

A white rhino was knocked down and killed by a bakkie and subsequently dehorned in a baffling hit-and-run accident in the Weenen Game Reserve on Tuesday night.

Kenya police are looking for the people behind a shipment of 684 kilogrammes of ivory seized at Nairobi's main airport and destined to Bangkok, a police official said Wednesday.

The poaching of rhinos has increased in South Africa, Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa Sonjica said on Wednesday.

Kenyan authorities have seized almost 700kg of ivory worth millions of dollars in a night-time raid at the country's main airport.

THE horrific killing of another rhinoceros by poachers (“Game parks under siege by rhino poachers,” Weekend Post, September 19) is a wake-up call that our natural resources are under threat from international criminal syndicates.

Indonesia walks a fine line when it comes to conservation and ecotourism.

Three poachers, who had allegedly been involved in killing a rhino and chopping off of its horn at the Burapahar forest range of Kaziranga five days back, were arrested in Nagaon district on Thursday.

Some of the Eastern Cape’s top game reserves are “under siege” by brazen poachers targeting white rhino populations for their horns which fetch high prices on the black market.

Twelve people from Chitwan, Nawalparasi and Makawanpur were arrested by Chitwan National Park for smuggling the horns of the endangered one -horned rhinos. They were arrested within nine days in between September 10 and September 19.

Chitwan National Park (CNP) has arrested a dozen persons with arms in a span of two weeks in connection with recent incidents of rhino killings from various places in Chitwan, Makwanpur and Nawalparasi, Kantipur daily reported.

A baby rhinoceros rejected by her mother at birth is being hand-reared by zookeepers in the north-western German city of Münster. It's round-the-clock-work: she drinks large quantities of special milk and needs to be stroked regularly.

A male rhino in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) in Assam was killed and its horn taken away by poachers, who were involved in two encounters with foresters in the habitat of the great Indian one-horn rhino.

Kaziranga shuddered as bullets rained down on the forest terrain.

He never imagined that a guided tour of rhino dens could fetch him so much of money. For Balak Sing Teron, Rs 9,000 earned in one day is an "astronomical sum."

A WHITE rhino bull has become the latest victim of poachers in the Eastern Cape – it was shot and killed on a game reserve outside Alexandria, and both its horns were removed.